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The Holocaust and the Neo-Nazi Mythomania
© 1978, The
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was entrusted by the government with obtaining the
instinctive attraction and the financial support of American Jews for Russia at
war. The Committee was liquidated after the war; and its leaders, including
Bergelson, were shot.
Rassinier did not ask what credit could be given
to a propaganda article in favour of a country living through dark hours of its
history, nor how a simple journalist could have obtained the information in
question during the chaos of the battle of Stalingrad. He did not ask how the
Russians could evacuate 80% of the Jews from the Baltic countries which had
been cut off from Russia by the lightning advance of the German armies during
the first days of the "Blitzkrieg," when the Soviet troops themselves had not
the time to save themselves from being encircled, nor to avoid being captured.
Instead of taking his information without any discrimination, Rassinier could
have read the secret report dated January 31, 1942, of the
SS-Obergruppenführer commanding the "Einsatzgruppe A." Important extracts
from it were published in French as of 1949 through the good offices of the
Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation (32, pp. 286 287). He would have thus learnt that on the date
of October 25, 1941, the number of Jews that had been executed was 123,930
among whom:
| In Lithuania |
80,311 |
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| In Latvia |
30,025 |
} + 5.500 liquidated in ther
pogroms |
| In Estonia |
474 |
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| In White Ruthenia |
7,620 |
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118,430 |
+ 5,500 = 123,930 |
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Moreover, in Latvia, for example, there
were still 28,000 persons in Riga, 24,000 of whom were already shut up in the
ghetto. Other ghettos existed "in other cities still peopled by a sufficient
number of Jews..." (32, p. 285). And seven
months later, in the report dated June 12, 1942, one may read (32, pp. 308 309):
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"...After the entry of the German troops,
there were still 70,000 Jews in Latvia, whereas the others had fled with the
Bolshevik armies that were retreating. (...) Presently, but few Jews, who are
employed as specialists, are still in the ghettos. It is a question here of the
following figures: in Riga about 2,500; in Dunabourg about 950; in Libau about
300. Leaving these Jews out of account, Latvia has in the meantime been freed
of its Jews."
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